7016181 Sgt Dennis Robert GRIFFIN, 2 London Irish Rifles: 20/01/1943

Remembering today and tomorrow, Dennis Griffin and the 46 other men of the 2nd Battalion London Irish Rifles, who were killed on Pts 279 and 286 to the east of the Goubellat to Bou Arada road. Dennis Griffin was the battalion boxing champion.

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Dennis Griffin. Rank: Sergeant.
Unit: London Irish Rifles. Service number: 7016181.
Date of death: 20.01.1943. Age at death: 26.
Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab.

There were 41 other men killed over these 2 days in Tunisia, who we also remember.

1 East Surrey Regiment – 1.
Intelligence Corps – 1.
2 KRRC – 1.
10 Rifle Brigade – 2.
10 Derbyshire Yeomanry – 3.
RAMC – 1.
RASC (165 Field Ambulance) – 1.
51 LAA - 3.
172 Field Regiment – 2.
58 A/Tk Regiment - 1.
152 Field Regiment – 9.
11 LAA - 2.
Royal Corps of Signals – 1.
12 RHA – 6.
Royal Horse Guards (51 Commando) – 1.
Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers - 2.
Royal Irish Fusiliers - 4.

The London Irishmen who were killed:

Edmond Hall. Rank: Corporal.
Unit: London Irish Rifles. Service number: 7015279.
Date of death: 20.01.1943 Age at death: 27.
Place of burial: Massicault.

Victor Pottinger Rank: Lieutenant.
Unit: London Irish Rifles. Service number: 217804.
Date of death: 20.01.1943. Age at death: 23.
Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab.

Themistolles Sinodorou. Rank: Rifleman.
Unit: London Irish Rifles. Service number: 7016695.
Date of death: 20.01.1943.
Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab.

Stanley Meager. Rank: Lance Corporal.
Unit: London Irish Rifles. Service number: 7015737.
Date of death: 20.01.1943. Age at death: 23.
Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab.

John Baxter..Rank: Rifleman.
Unit: London Irish Rifles.Service number: 6472465.
Date of death: 20.01.1943.Age at death: 27.
Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab.

Robert Wallace.Rank: Rifleman.
Unit: London Irish Rifles.Service number: 7019499.
Date of death: 20.01.1943.
Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab.

Walter Viney. Rank: Rifleman.
Unit: London Irish Rifles. Service number: 6472132.
Date of death: 20.01.1943. Age at death: 22.
Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab.

George Rock.Rank: Sergeant.
Unit: London Irish Rifles.Service number: 3675683.
Date of death: 20.01.1943.Age at death: 37.
Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab.

Robert Norland,.Rank: Lance Corporal.
Unit: London Irish Rifles. Service number: 7022330.
Date of death: 20.01.1943.Age at death: 22.
Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab.

Joseph Smyth. Rank: Rifleman.
Unit: London Irish Rifles. Service number: 7020056.
Date of death: 20.01.1943.Age at death: 21.
Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab.

Eugene Murphy, Rank: Rifleman.
Unit: London Irish Rifles. Service number: 7022323.
Date of death: 20.01.1943.Age at death: 27.
Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab.

Herbert Deards. Rank: Rifleman.
Unit: London Irish Rifles. Service number: 5954799.
Date of death: 20.01.1943. Age at death: 23.
Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab.

Dennis Connolly. Rank: Rifleman.
Unit: London Irish Rifles. Service number: 7015973.
Date of death: 20.01.1943. Age at death: 23.
Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab.

James McGranahan. Rank: Lieutenant.
Unit: London Irish Rifles. Service number: 219911.
Date of death: 20.01.1943. Age at death: 20.
Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab.

William Duncombe. Rank: Rifleman.
Unit: London Irish Rifles. Service number: 7015859.
Date of death: 20.01.1943. Age at death: 24.
Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab.

William McDowell. Rank: Rifleman.
Unit: London Irish Rifles. Service number: 7011302.
Date of death: 20.01.1943.
Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab.

Harry Robinson. Rank: Corporal.
Unit: London Irish Rifles. Service number: 7015092.
Date of death: 20.01.1943. Age at death: 22.
Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab Memorial.

George Atkinson. Rank: Sergeant.
Unit: London Irish Rifles. Service number: 1012459.
Date of death: 20.01.1943. Age at death: 28.
Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab Memorial.

Joseph Carrigan.Rank: Captain.
Unit: London Irish Rifles. Service number: 156813.
Date of death: 20.01.1943. Age at death: 31.
Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab Memorial.

Patrick Crouchman. Rank: Lance Sergeant.
Unit: London Irish Rifles.Service number: 5824219.
Date of death: 20.01.1943. Age at death: 33.
Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab Memorial.

Joseph Whelan. Rank: Lance Sergeant.
Unit: London Irish Rifles. Service number: 7010955.
Date of death: 20.01.1943. Age at death: 32.
Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab Memorial.

Ernest Cooling. Rank: Rifleman.
Unit: London Irish Rifles. Service number: 6460602.
Date of death 20.01.1943.
Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab Memorial

Thomas Cram. Rank: Lance Corporal.
Unit: London Irish Rifles. Service number: 7015983.
Date of death: 20.01.1943. Age at death: 24.
Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab Memorial.

William Fourt. Rank: Rifleman.
Unit: London Irish Rifles.Service number: 7014550.
Date of death: 20.01.1943. Age at death: 22.
Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab Memorial.

John Hamilton. Rank: Rifleman.
Unit: London Irish Rifles. Service number: 6466849.
Date of death: 20.01.1943. Age at death: 23.
Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab Memorial.

Alfred Harris. Rank: Rifleman.
Unit: London Irish Rifles. Service number: 6466851.
Date of death: 20.01.1943. Age at death: 23.
Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab Memorial.

Joseph Loughbridge. Rank: Lance Corporal.
Unit: London Irish Rifles. Service number: 7019600.
Date of death: 20.01.1943.Age at death: 24.
Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab Memorial.

Robert McCracken.Rank: Rifleman.
Unit: London Irish Rifles. Service number: 7019059.
Date of death: 20.01.1943. Age at death: 29.
Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab Memorial.

James Mills. Rank: Rifleman.
Unit: London Irish Rifles.Service number: 7019573.
Date of death: 20.01.1943.Age at death: 22.
Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab Memorial.

Gordon Trivett. Rank: Rifleman.
Unit: London Irish Rifles. Service number: 7022374.
Date of death: 20.01.1943. Age at death: 21.
Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab Memorial.

Frederick Waller. Rank: Rifleman.
Unit: London Irish Rifles. Service number: 6470584.
Date of death: 20.01.1943. Age at death: 27.
Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab Memorial.

Philip Williams. Rank: Rifleman.
Unit: London Irish Rifles. Service number: 6089737.
Date of death: 20.01.1943.Age at death: 28.
Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab Memorial.

Edward Gant. Rank: Rifleman.
Unit: London Irish Rifles. Service number: 6471812.
Date of death: 20.01.1943.Age at death: 23.
Place of burial: Thibar Seminary, Tunisia.

Michael McInerney. Rank: Rifleman.
Unit: London Irish Rifles. Service number: 7022307.
Date of death: 21.01.1943. Age at death: 32.
Place of burial: Massicault.

Maurice Rickard. Rank: Lance Corporal.
Unit: London Irish Rifles. Service number: 6471992.
Date of death: 21.01.1943. Age at death: 27.
Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab.

Sydney Ekin.Rank: Captain.
Unit: London Irish Rifles.Service number: 89200.
Date of death: 21.01.1943.Age at death: 32.
Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab.

Harold Mangan. Rank: Rifleman.
Unit: London Irish Rifles. Service number: 3783498.
Date of death: 21.01.1943. Age at death: 22.
Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab.

George Wyman. Rank: Rifleman.
Unit: London Irish Rifles.Service number: 6475014.
Date of death: 21.01.1943.Age at death: 22.
Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab.

Herbert Crofts.Rank: Rifleman.
Unit: London Irish Rifles. Service number: 7014748.
Date of death: 21.01.1943. Age at death: 22.
Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab.

Ernest King. Rank: Rifleman.
Unit: London Irish Rifles. Service number: 7019585.
Date of death: 21.01.1943. Age at death: 22.
Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab.

Reginald McKenna. Rank: Lieutenant.
Unit: London Irish Rifles. Service number: 233305.
Date of death: 21.01.1943.Age at death: 22.
Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab.

Edward Beechey. Rank: Lieutenant.
Unit: London Irish Rifles. Service number: 193855.
Date of death: 21.01.1943. Age at death: 32.
Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab.

Charles Booker. Rank: Lance Corporal.
Unit: London Irish Rifles. Service number: 7018526
Date of death: 21.01.1943. Age at death: 25.
Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab.

Hubert Henderson. Rank: Captain.
Unit: London Irish Rifles. Service number: 137933.
Date of death: 21.01.1943. Age at death: 34.
Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab Memorial.

Henry Dunham. Rank: Rifleman.
Unit: London Irish Rifles. Service number: 7016157.
Date of death: 21.01.1943. Age at death: 25.
Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab Memorial.

Ronald Figg. Rank: Rifleman.
Unit: London Irish Rifles. Service number: 7015019.
Date of death: 21.01.1943. Age at death: 25.
Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab Memorial.